Costume of Beatrice d'Este; duchess of Bari and later Milan; 15th century. She wears strings of pearls in her hair; and a long ponytail plaited with white and black. Her dress is in yellow fabric with blue and black stripes; decorated with violet ribbons. From the Pala Sforzesca altarpiece in the Pinacoteca di Brera; Milan. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries; Levy Fils; Paris; 1861.